Catalog

Structural Geology and Tectonics

Course Type:

EES

Code:

4210

Level:

Undergraduate

Credit Hours:

4

Schedule Type:

Lecture

Lab

Description:

Study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units. Deformational structures such as folds, faults, joints, cleavage, foliation, and lineation and their superposition are used to unravel the history of deformation, and to understand the stress fields that produced the observed strain and structures. Tectonics is the structural evolution of regional patterns of deformation at the scale of mountain ranges.